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Today, Explained

The Joshua Generation

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A group of evangelical Christians raised their children to become influential in the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the Supreme Court. Now, as adults, the "Joshua generation" are reckoning with their upbringing. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The documentary, Shiny Happy People, Dugger Family Secrets, was Amazon's biggest documentary

0:08.5

debut ever.

0:09.5

It's about the evangelical Christian family who were stars of TLC's 19 kids and counting.

0:15.8

Some things about the Duggers were already well known.

0:17.9

They were part of a movement we're having and then homeschooling many, many children was

0:21.7

encouraged, creating an army for God it was sometimes called.

0:26.2

What's well known was that the Duggers considered themselves and their kids part of something

0:30.1

called the Joshua Generation.

0:32.5

It sounds almost conspiratorial but these kids were raised to become influential in places

0:36.9

where influence mattered.

0:38.7

The goal was Christian homeschool graduates who would be US senators, who would be US presidents

0:45.2

and most importantly who would be US Supreme Court justices.

0:50.4

Coming up on today explained what is the Joshua generation and why are some evangelicals

0:55.1

turning their backs on it?

1:01.1

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1:05.7

That's why GSK and Veeve Health Care have partnered with the HIV community for decades

1:11.3

and developed medicines that better fit the lives of people living with HIV.

1:16.0

That's just one example of how GSK unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of

1:22.7

disease together.

1:24.8

It's today explained up in a well-kinned Christian Cobas Dumay is a historian and author

1:42.5

of the book Jesus and John Wayne.

1:44.5

She was featured in shiny happy people explaining things about the evangelical movement and

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